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Individual and organisational factors influencing registered nurses’ attitudes towards patient advocacy in S wedish community health care of elders
Author(s) -
JosseEklund Anna,
WildeLarsson Bodil,
Petzäll Kerstin,
SandinBojö AnnKristin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/scs.12073
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , nursing , psychology , personality , big five personality traits , health care , variance (accounting) , medicine , social psychology , political science , accounting , law , business
Aim The aim of this study was to describe and explore individual and organisational factors potentially influencing registered nurses’ ( RN s) attitudes towards patient advocacy. Methods and Sample In a quantitative cross‐sectional study, data were collected from 226 RNs in community health care of elders. A questionnaire was used to measure a number of factors including attitudes towards patient advocacy, nursing competence, personality traits, individual preferences regarding the quality of health care and working climate. A multiple regression analysis was performed. Results The results showed that individual factors of nursing competence and individual preferences of the quality of health care, as well as organisational factors of the working climate, explained 26.2% of the variance in the RN s’ attitudes towards patient advocacy. Conclusions Although the mentioned individual factors may be intertwined, the conclusion is that both individual and organisational factors influenced RN s’ attitudes towards patient advocacy. The results do not verify that nursing experience, workplace experience, educational level or personality traits influence the RN s’ attitudes towards patient advocacy. The proportion of explained variance indicates that additional factors also influence attitudes towards patient advocacy, and more research is needed to shed further light on these factors.